[William of Barsoom]

Are we not simply seeing the Really Big ones gobbling up the slightly smaller banks, until only maybe ten remain, globally. And those ten CAN be bailed out with fiat paper? (Which quickly becomes digital and all THAT comes with...)

No?

[Brian Griffin]

Banks could post loans spread rate charts online and in their branches. <2% 6.7% <3% 32.8% <4% 27.3% <5% 10.7% >5% 22.5% Are not almost all US banks sound?

[Boogieman]

“And those ten CAN be bailed out with fiat paper?”

The problem with this idea is that it just involves printing more money, which will cause more inflation, which requires raising the interest rates again, and the cycle continues.

In 2008 when we were bailing out banks, we weren’t already at a high rate of inflation, so we could tolerate some, and the Fed was still able to pursue its little financial trickery to delay when the inflation would hit, to give the economy room to grow to offset it. Neither of those are the case anymore.